Melissa's Review:

No Mistress of Mine is book four in the An American Heiress in London series. This book is a second chances trope and I haven't read one of those in quite awhile so I was glad to get the chance to. This is actually my first Laura Lee Guhrke book and I enjoyed seeing that I could read these out of order since I'm a rebel and started on book four.

We start off with our leading lady, Lola Valentine. She's a showgirl that is an aspiring actress that is heading back to London because a friend of hers passed away and left her his share in a business there. The only catch is that the other co-owner of the business is none other than her old lover. They didn't exactly end on the best terms so I knew it would be a very rocky encounter. I normally enjoy the ones where one character is dead set against the other, but this one made me not like the hero's character at all in the beginning. I had issues with both characters to be quite honest. Our hero, Lord Denys Somerton was not ready for Lola to re-enter his life and is quite nasty with her on more than on occasion. I only started to like him and Lola quite a bit later in the book. Does that mean this book is horrible? Heck no! It just wasn't quite the perfect fit for me character-wise. The end half more than made up for the beginning in my opinion but I just wanted to love it earlier than that. I'd recommend this book if you're a fan of second chances trope in historical romance.

There's something about history that whenever I read a book with the word "history" in it, I instantly feel bored even if I haven't started reading it. But I tried to challenged myself that's why I decided to read one which was the "Shadows of the Past" and fortunately for me, it turned out great. But too bad this book didn't work great for you :(